Fulgoroidea

A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment and that they often "hop" for quick transportation in a similar way to that of grasshoppers. However, planthoppers generally walk very slowly. Distributed worldwide, all members of this group are plant-feeders, though few are considered pests. Fulgoromorphs are most reliably distinguished from the other Auchenorrhyncha by two features: the bifurcate (Y-shaped) anal vein in the forewing, and the thickened, three-segmented antennae, with a generally round or egg-shaped second segment (pedicel) that bears a fine filamentous arista.

Fulgoroidea

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucixioidianPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 244 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 245.19 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 226 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 226 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 226 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 226 occurrencesEocene — about 137 of 226 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 226 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 226 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 226 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 226 occurrences250–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 24 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 44 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 73 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 26 occurrences17–8.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences244.4 Mya11.7 ka250 Mya0 Mya

226 occurrences of Fulgoroidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

226 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

31 formations

Green River — 39.46°N, 108.41°WGreen River — 39.60°N, 108.40°WGreen River — 39.00°N, 108.00°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 41.55°N, 109.51°WGreen River — 39.52°N, 108.53°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.46°N, 108.08°WGreen River — 41.84°N, 110.70°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.35°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WEifel — 50.11°N, 6.82°EMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EBembridge Marls — 50.74°N, 1.36°WBembridge Marls — 50.75°N, 1.34°WCrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WFur — 56.89°N, 8.67°EFur — 56.92°N, 8.83°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WNiubao — 32.84°N, 91.41°ENiubao — 32.03°N, 89.77°EMenat — 46.10°N, 2.90°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EMoler — 56.84°N, 9.00°ETranquille — 50.13°N, 120.51°WMaíz Gordo — 23.53°S, 65.02°WRöt — 50.13°N, 9.90°EMaiz Gordo — 24.32°S, 64.47°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EPoole — 50.67°N, 2.09°WLulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WGolden Valley — 46.97°N, 102.67°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ERedbank Plains — 27.66°S, 152.88°E

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The named rock units Fulgoroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 112 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fulgoroidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Fulgoroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,007 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Fulgoroidea, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

111 references

Each of the 226 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 99 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Fulgoroidea

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fulgoroidea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1807